Contents 



Preface 



Our Portrait Gallery 



Part I. The Origin of the Thoroughbred : 3 



Part II. The Three Cardinal Lines 2 3 



Part III. The Modern British Thoroughbred 35 



Part IV. The American Thoroughbred 7 1 



Second Epoch 1783 to 1861 7 



Third Epoch Close of Civil War to Date 84 



Our Imported Sires 



Our Native Sires 



Our Great Native Mares ; l 2 " 



Part V. The French Thoroughbred J 33 



Second Epoch - J 43 



Part VI. The Austro-Hungarian Thoroughbred 151 



Part VII. The Australian Thoroughbred J 59 



The Bruce Lowe System of Breeding by Figures I 77 



Converse In-Breeding 



In-Breeding, Past and Present - l8 5 



A Heart to Heart Talk with Breeders 189 



Selling Races 1 95 



Spurious Pedigrees T 97 



A Military Proposition 



Two-Year-Old Racing - 2O 5 



The Breeders' Handbook 2O 9 



Some Representative American Stallions - 



The Burns and Waterhouse Farm - 2 4 J 



A Home Production - 2 45 



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